MEDITATION MONDAY
Praise to God for a Living Hope!!!!!!!!
Yesterday, "God showed up" in a more accentuated way than usual in our Sunday morning service. My husband preached a sermon entitled, "I ALMOST QUIT!"
On this christian journey, there are things that often get in the way of victorious christian living and our ability to see the blessings we have all around us. God always shows up, yet the Devil would like nothing more that for us to not realize that and become...
- Discouraged
- Despaired
- Distressed
- Disillusioned
- Distracted
to the point that we quit.
Steve's wonderful words of encouragement with a reading of 1 Peter 1:3-9:
3 "Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ!
In His great mercy He has given us new birth
into a living hope
through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
4 and into an inheritance that can
never perish, spoil or fade.
This inheritance is kept in heaven for you,
5 who through faith are shielded by God’s power
until the coming of the salvation
that is ready to be revealed in the last time.
6 In all this you greatly rejoice,
though now for a little while
you may have had to suffer grief
in all kinds of trials.
7 These have come so that
the proven genuineness of your faith—
of greater worth than gold,
which perishes even though refined by fire—
may result in praise, glory and honor
when Jesus Christ is revealed.
8 Though you have not seen Him,
you love Him;
and even though you do not see Him now,
you believe in Him and are filled with
an inexpressible and glorious joy,
9 for you are receiving the end result of your faith,
the salvation of your souls."
~BLESSED~
NOTE: You can join others in listening to Steve's sermon(s) online here.
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